Ernest hundhausen



(No Model.)

I E. HUNDHAUSEN.

HAT IASTENER.

No. 590,839. Patented Sept. 28,1897. v

WITNESSES INVENTDH' 3/1. J6 JQML Q Nirnn ST TES rrrcn.

ERNEST HUNDHAUSEN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AUGUST F. MEYER, OF SAME PLACE.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,839, dated September 28, 1897. Application filed January 23,1897. Serial No. 620.468. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 77pm concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST HUNDHAUSEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, have invented a new and useful Hat-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for fastening a ladys hat so the same will remain well and firmly seated on the head of the wearer. It is well known that ladies hats as most commonly worn nowadays are fastened to the hair by means of a pin which is stuck into the hat-crown and run through it from side to side. This is not a secure way of holding a hat in place, as any one will be convinced of by watching a ladies promenade on a windy day. The force of the wind may not blow off a hat that is properly pinned, but it will often disarrange the head-gear or headdress and swing it off that conventionally straight position which is so prized by all ladies of refined taste. Besides, a hat-pin is not approved of by many on account of its dagger-like appearance, which they do not regard as altogether sightly, and also because of its more or less dangerous character, since children and other persons may get hurt through it by accidentally running their hands or face against its point.

The object of my invention is therefore to provide a better hat-fastener than the ordinary hat-pin, one that will really and effectively secure the hat in place and hold it on straight, yet a fastener that is simple and cheap and withal neat and ornamental.

' Referring to the vdrawings annexed to this specification, Figurel is a bottom view of a ladys hat provided-with one form of my improved hat-fastener. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same fastener detached from the hat.

Corresponding letters indicate'corresponding parts in both figures. 7

At A, Fig. 1, is'shown the outline of a ladys hat now much worn, of which B is the brim and O is the crown.

D is a light band of rather stiff andyet pliant material, such as sheet metal, which is secured to the fore part of the hats crown and high enough within it to be above the ladys head by the sides of the top hair when have it only in front, as shown. I sewed to the crown or attached thereto by any from, as represented at Fig. 1.

she has the hat on. This band may be extended as far rearward as is found desirable,

and even all around the crown, though it is deemed sufficient for ordinary purposes to It may be approved means. To the band D aforesaid is fastened a strip of whalebone or other flexible and resilient material E by means of a rivet F, passed through the center of both. This strip E is made long enough to extend well back of the head on each side of the hat-crown, and its ends are left free, so that each side or branch of said strip may either bear against the corresponding inner side of the band D, as shown in Fig. 2, or be drawn away there- Each side or branch of the strip is also provided with one or more pins G, that are preferably located opposite one another and pointed inward, so they will be stuck into the upper layer of the hair when the hat is placed 011 the head and the ends of the whalebone strip are pulled toward each other.

The ends of the strip E are controlled and moved by a string H, whose ends are run through or across them from opposite sides and respectively attached to the side opposite where each is run fromthat is to say, the ends it 7L2 of the string H are passed through suitable holes or about suitable bearingpoints, as at E E on each side of the strip E, and thence are crossed and tied, the end h to the end of the strip where E is located and the end h to that other end of the strip where E is to be found. The string H is made of sufficient length, if let alone, to allow the ends of the whalebone to spread apart inside the crown of the hat far enough for The top of the hair to pass between them,the sides of the whalebone resting then against the sides of the band D, as represented at Fig.2; but if part of said string be pulled onsay the outermost portion of it, which is the handiest to reach and best to draw outits ends will be caused to move toward each other, and

likewise the ends of the whalebone with the pins thereon. In such case these movable parts of the fastener will assume the position illustrated at Fig. 1. If, therefore, the hat with the fastener therein be put on the head while the ends of the string are far apart, the top of the hair will readily pass between the sides or branches of the whalebone and the pins projected inwardly therefrom, but when afterward the string is pulled both sides of the top hair will be compressed and the pins run through it from opposite sides and the hat will become securely fastened to the head so long as the tension on the string is maintained. This tension of the string can, of course, be maintained in various ways. A very simple and at the same time ornamental arrangement for this purpose is to have a button L, over which the'portion of the string pulled out can be passed, the same being affixed to the under side of the brim of the hat at the rear or somewhere back of the head, as indicated at Fig. 1. One or more turns may be taken around this button, if necessary, to take up the slack of the string and have the whalebone and pins drawn inward as much as may be desired.

hat I claim is- 1. A hat-fastener, consisting of a spring having the shape of a horseshoe, and which to said band so its ends may be free to move toward and away from each other, pins projected inwardly from the sides of said strip, a string controlling the movements of the free ends of the strip, and a button over which said string may be passed when pulled out, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST HUNDHAUSEN. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

A. H. STE. MARIE, HENRY P. TRICOU. 

